Mexico or Mehico?

Question

I want to know if Mehico is actually a proper word. Is that how Mexicans spell Mexico?

Answer 1

Meaheco, if you are going to spell it phonetically in

English do it right

Answer 2

Mexico is spelled "Mexico" and the X has the H sound.  The City of Xalapa is spelled with either an X or a J and the initial sound of the word is "H".  The town or Xico is pronounced Hico.  In Spanish the x and the j usually have the h sound.   However, sometimes x is pronounced the same way it is in English.   The town of Texin is pronounced Tekseen.  Occasionally x is pronounced as sh...Xala is pronounced shala.  In Spanish the letter h is completely silent.

Answer 3

mexico its mexico!.... but when you say mexico sound like mejico!

Answer 4

Mexico

I live in oaxaca and its prononced wa HA ka x has the x or s or sh sound :D

Answer 5

No, nobody writes Mehico.  Yes, the proper pronunciation is with an "h" sound for x.   If you've seen a Mexican write that, it is because they will sometimes write things how they sound, but not use proper spelling.  We do that a lot in English too.

The answer that said that is how the "x" is pronounced in Spanish is wrong.  The x is pronounced with an h sound only in words that draw their roots from indigenous populations in Mexico.   But traditional spanish pronunciation of the x is like the english x sound.

Answer 6

Not to split hairs, but Mexicans spell it México -- the accent is for emphasis on the first syllable, like MExico, otherwise it would naturally be meXIco.

Mehico doesn't make too much sense as the 'h' is silent in Spanish. The correct, previous, spelling is "Mejico" -- a "j" in Spanish is pronounced like an 'h' in English.

Answer 7

Mexico being pronounced Mehico... but that seemed to be a difference in pronunciation between languages, not a fundamentally different word.